what happens if hendry does nothing?

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

I'm puzzled by people's interest in trading A-Ram? I realize he's had a bad year, but until he arrived we all lamented how we hadn't had an all-star caliber 3B since Santo. Now we want to run him out of town? If anything, he's proven that he can't be the man in our lineup, but I sure like the idea of A-Ram, D-Lee and hopefully C-Lee next season.

 

On Pierre...I'd like to see how he finishes out the season, because here again, we've waited a long time for a true lead-off hitter with speed, and at least he has the speed part figured out. Where do we turn if we trade or fail to resign him? Pie isn't ready and his speed isn't exactly doing much for him at Iowa.

 

I'm not sure about "run him out". I think others are just exploring options. He commands value and it is worth a look. That's all.

[goonys evil twin]

On Pierre...I'd like to see how he finishes out the season, because here again, we've waited a long time for a true lead-off hitter with speed, and at least he has the speed part figured out. Where do we turn if we trade or fail to resign him? Pie isn't ready and his speed isn't exactly doing much for him at Iowa.

 

Pierre is only a "true leadoff hitter" because some people like to label leadoff hitters based on speed. I, for one, haven't been lamenting the lack of true leadoff hitters. But if I was, Pierre wouldn't fit the bill. If there is any such thing as a true leadoff hitter, it's somebody who takes a lot of pitches, gets on 40% of the time, and steals lots of bases without getting caught. But there aren't many of those. I'd much rather take a slower player that gets on base more often (and gets picked off less frequently).

[badgercub]

I'm puzzled by people's interest in trading A-Ram? I realize he's had a bad year, but until he arrived we all lamented how we hadn't had an all-star caliber 3B since Santo. Now we want to run him out of town? If anything, he's proven that he can't be the man in our lineup, but I sure like the idea of A-Ram, D-Lee and hopefully C-Lee next season.

 

On Pierre...I'd like to see how he finishes out the season, because here again, we've waited a long time for a true lead-off hitter with speed, and at least he has the speed part figured out. Where do we turn if we trade or fail to resign him? Pie isn't ready and his speed isn't exactly doing much for him at Iowa.

 

I would be willing to trade any player on the roster if it made the team better for 2007 and into the future. If that means running them out of town, so be it. Obviously you would have to be blown away with any deal involving Z, and since D-Lee is on the DL you don't even have an option but it would take a lot in return to trade him also.

[Magnetic Curses]

koronka is pretty terrible. he doesn't get a ton of ground balls and he doesn't strike many people out. this is a recipe for a mediocre pitcher who will be sitting on his current 5.02 ERA the rest of his career unless he develops another pitch that's 1,000 times more effective than what he has now.

 

maybe it's his near .800 OPSA that's so attractive? or maybe it's the fact that he's 6-6 on a pretty decent offensive team?

 

yeah, he's great, the cubs should have never traded him.

 

now THAT'S sarcasm.

 

Never tried to say he was great, or even good, but given the dearth of pitching talent available these days he still has value. There are 14 out of 45 qualifying AL pitchers with worse OPSA including Jon Garland, Mark Buehrle, and ""All Star"" Mark Redman.

 

not that i'm a garland fan, he's a pitcher without very good stuff but has been able to get a majority of ground balls over 6 full major league seasons, if koronka wants to turn serviceable, than he needs to develop an effective sinking pitch, because he's not going to get many strikeouts.

 

as for buerhle, he has had a nightmare season, but has been one of the better pitchers in the AL over his previous 5 seasons and this year appears to be an exception. again, buehrle gets ground balls and has been effective at recording outs--koronka has not.

 

if koronka had had any kind of success in the past and this season was simply an anomaly, it would be different.

 

and i think that i can safely predict that if koronka stays in the big leagues for an extended period of time, it will be as a journeyman bullpen arm--hardly worth holding on to.

[FergieJ31]

Pierre is only a "true leadoff hitter" because some people like to label leadoff hitters based on speed. I, for one, haven't been lamenting the lack of true leadoff hitters. But if I was, Pierre wouldn't fit the bill. If there is any such thing as a true leadoff hitter, it's somebody who takes a lot of pitches, gets on 40% of the time, and steals lots of bases without getting caught. But there aren't many of those. I'd much rather take a slower player that gets on base more often (and gets picked off less frequently).

 

Absolutely!! Well said goony. The leadoff hitter thing has been SO overblown since 2004.